Will and OSC. Their answers and comments are just about perect. ST was our elemntary school and HS, now it’s time to move on. And maybe in a few years someone can give us ST worthy of where the audience is now.

I think there are deeper issues at work here besides a simple “I hate Star Trek” motivation. As a well-known and talented science fiction author, Orson Scott Card was approached and obviously snubbed by a major television network at one point or another in his career. My guess *and yes this is all speculative* is that a network wanted a “Star Trek like” show from him or worse yet, to turn one of his original and groundbreaking novels into a bad made-for-tv movie/pilot. When Mr. card held to his integrity and refused, they dropped him like a hot potato. Hence, the deep disdain for anything Star Trek.

I have read a couple of Mr. Card’s novels and consider myself a fan of his work. No doubt, Star Trek in it’s latest incarnation is well-past it’s time and I too was glad to see go. However, seeing a storyteller engage in such an attack against an almost 40 year old beloved franchise that America *no, the WORLD* grew up with is petty at best and unprofessional at the worst.

-al

PS – So Mr. Card, you write that Lost and Buffy are some of the best Sci-Fi on TV right now? You should know that you are NOT helping your case making remarks like that … :-S